If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about o…

Virginia Woolf
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.3151, Delphi Classics
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